Rhodeskropf, robinson and viswanathan 2005 provide empirical evidence consistent with the market valuations theory of merger waves. Glotfelty, editor of the first ecocriticism reader and cofounder of the american nature writing newsletter, which later became the asle newsletter. The use of economic tools in merger analysis the use of economic tools in merger analysis. Just as feminist criticism examines language and literature from a genderconscious perspective, and marxist criticism brings an awareness of modes of production and economic class to its reading of texts, ecocriticism takes an earthcentered approach to literary studies glotfelty. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Our approach uses text regression, in which frequencies of words and phrases in the document are used as independent variables in a logistic. Dynamics of ecocriticism international journal of academic. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading ecocriticism, ecology, and the cultures of antiquity ecocritical theory and practice. Performance of mergers and acquisitions under corporate. Ecocriticism in british romantic studies kevin hutchings university of northern british columbia abstract this article considers the theory and practice of ecological literary criticism, or ecocriticism, in british romantic studies. Ecocriticism and environmental humanities when asle was established in 1992, ecocriticism was an emerging interdisciplinary field in literary and cultural studies.
Pdf predicting merger targets and acquirers from text. An experimental approach to merger evaluation christopher t. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Literary studies in an age of environmental crisis, in interconnections between human and ecosystem health, eds. Whilst focusing on eu practice, the work also highlights key procedures and and case law across the member states. New evidence and perspectives on mergers gregor andrade, mark mitchell, and erik stafford e mpirical research on mergers and acquisitions has revealed a great deal about their trends and characteristics over the last century. Notes on ecocriticism or environmental criticism ecocriticism investigates relationships between literature and the physical environment it provides an earthcentred approach to literary studies. Interdisciplinary studies in literature and environment over the course of its first ten years.
Ecocriticism, ecology, and the cultures of antiquity. Pdf historicity of ecocriticism and ecocritical history. Troncss orlando sentinel and sunsentinel in fort lauderdale would pair with the miami herald for a. The case of daimlerchrysler jeff badrtalei california state university, dominguez hills donald l. Ecocriticism is notoriously interdisciplinary, something that takes inquiry in a wide variety of intellectual directions. Mergers, acquisitions and capital raising in mining and metals 3 excluding the europebased glencore xstrata deal, north america has moved ahead as the most acquisitive region in 9m 20. Premerger, such an announcement would not be credible in the postulated auction setting. Could a mcclatchytronc merger help local newspapers transition to digital. The oxford handbook of ecocriticism edited by greg garrard oxford handbooks. An introduction to literary and cultural theory ecocriticism is simply defined as the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment p. The suggestions to reserve the ecocriticism reader.
Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle. Inspired by a range of ecological movements, ecocriticism explores the ways in which we imagine and portray the relationship between humans and the environment in all areas of cultural production, from wordsworth and thoreau to disney and bbc nature documentaries. Ecocriticism is the youngest of the revisionist movements that have swept the humanities over the past few decades. For example, a profusion of event studies has demonstrated that mergers seem to create. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Landmarks in literary ecology, cheryll glotfelty, 1996. Ecocriticism is the study of literature and environment from an interdisciplinary point of view where all sciences come together to analyze the environment and brainstorm possible solutions for the correction of the contemporary environmental. In deciding the merger case for the government, the court did not credit most of the efficiencies from merger claimed by the firms, on the grounds that those claims were overstated, that the efficiencies could reasonably have been achieved at less harm to competition through means other than merger, and that cost savings were unlikely to be. The ecocriticism reader landmarks in literary ecology edited by cheryll glotfelty and harold fromm the university of georgia press athens and london. University of nevada, reno, hired her as the nations first professor of literature and environment in 1990. The oxford handbook of ecocriticism greg garrard oxford.
Directed toward the future development of the field rather than being a history of the fields development. Hostile takeover activity has dissipated in recent years, for a variety of reasons, but the ethical issues surrounding acquisitions and mergers and the ethically questionable conduct that is often involved remain as relevant as ever. Recent critiques of ecocriticism by gifford, terry new. New horizons xiii we thank amanda millar, carol koulikourdi, and soucin yipsou of cambridge scholars publishing for their help and meticulous work in the preparation of the manuscript. Mergers and acquisitions are important, infrequent events that are dicult to predict. Conlony julie holland mortimerz november 30, 20 abstract the 2010 department of justice and federal trade commission horizontal merger guidelines lay out a new standard for assessing proposed mergers in markets with di erentiated products.
The most widely known ecocritics, apart from the aforementioned lawrence buell and cheryll glotfelty, are simon c. Accordingly, the overvaluation theory posits that more acquisitions will happen in periods of bubbles. These kinds of help can certainly make all of us a lot more u. Ecocriticism the comedy of survival the country and the city.
Page 5 of 16 readings in contemporary literary theory. Alerts ecocritics to the new areas of their field they may know little or nothing about. This one is largely a carryover from mergers in the for. Journal of financial economics university of california. Large amounts of money are often made or lost on swings in stock prices, and there are laws and regulations governing what merger planners can say. The first chapter ecocriticism gives a detailed introduction to ecotheory from its origin to the present.
After the merger the authoritative guide for integration success rev. Materiality, sustainability, and applicability professor scott slovic department of english university of idaho moscow, id 83844 usa email. Merger myths nonprofit mergers and alliances wiley. Our vision is an inclusive community whose members are committed to environmental research, education, literature, art and service, environmental justice, and ecological sustainability. Ecocriticism association for the study of literature and environment. Material ecocriticism and the creativity of storied matter serpil oppermann abstract situated in the conceptual horizons of the new materialist paradigm, material ecocriticism views matter in terms of its agentic expressions, inherent creativity, performative enactments and innate meanings. As tlrilgs turned out, much more than cheryll burgess glotfeltys origi. While 56 percent of the overall vote was yes, north central members. Exploring the relationship between literature and the physical environment, literary ecology is the study of the ways that writing both reflects and influences our interactions with the natural world. As cheryll glotfelty noted in the introduction to the ecocriticism reader, just as feminist criticism examines language. Greg garrards animated and accessible volume traces the development of the movement and explores its key concepts. Ecocriticism necessarily entails a shift away from approaches that strictly.
Although these two merger control instruments have been analysed separately, little work has been dedicated to modelling merger litigation where both the provision of efficiencyrelated evidence and remedyoffers are at the merging firms discretion, which is the case for example in. The essays in the ecocriticism reader explore the ways that writing reflects and influences our interactions with the natural world. An offshore merger involving two or more major suppliers of a product or service to new zealand, where there is no new zealand presence, could therefore be caught by the act. The function of ecoart is to combine human beings with the biosphere. The ecocriticism reader is the first collection of its kind, an anthology of classic and. The use of economics in competition law 2005, jan 27, brussels the views expressed herein are not purported to reflect those of the federal trade commission, nor any of its commissioners. It invites manuscripts that address any issue of interest to its readership. The relationship between nature and culture, gradual growth of ecocriticism and its related concepts are also described in this chapter. Bates university of houstondowntown inquiry into past partnership waves provides guides about their causes and failures.
Besides the advantages of scale that a merger would create, there would be regional synergies. Also, some unrelated merger activity is notable, especially within big business. Before the merger, each seller made an allornothing offer to the buyer for its sole, indivisible unit in a nontrivial sense. The first part of this paper summarises the literature on the cyclical nature of mergers referred to in the. Cheryll glotfelty s working definition in the ecocriticism reader is that ecocriticism is the study of the relationship between literature and the physical environment, and one of the implicit goals of the approach is to recoup professional dignity for what glotfelty calls the undervalued genre of nature writing. As stated by glotfelty, ecocriticism takes an earth centered approach to literary studies, rather than an anthropomorphic or humancentered approach. Asia pacific was the most acquisitive region in the third quarter, primarily the result of domestic gold and steel acquisitions in china and australia. Nowadays the literary critics pay attention on study and analysis of the strong bond between nature and society.
Landmarks in literary ecology by cheryl glotfelty and harold fromm. Environmental criticism, also known as ecocriticism and green criticism especially in england, is a rapidly emerging field of literary study that considers the relationship that human beings have to the environment. According to cheryll glotfelty, as cited in peter barrys beginning theory. The mergers sudden repricing shocked and angered the institutional investors that collectively held nearly half of mcis stock. Edgeworth economists specialize in developing compelling empirical studies. That is, the merger could generate a price increase if capacityconstrained sellers capable of producing multiple units make. Walkling, 1987 and in the long run loughran and vijh. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Towards an ecocritical reading of selected fiction of gao xingjian is the result of investigation carried out by me at the department of humanities and social. We will use class discussion not just to get some idea of what ecocriticism now entails. Ownermembers, economy ultimately control merger decision. First, the rise in the average mergerintensity accompanied an increase in the size of the firm. Represents the most significant subjects and debates in the field today.
Over the last three decades, ecocriticism has emerged as a field of literary study that addresses how humans relate to non human nature or the environment in literature. Landmarks in literary ecology other followers will be able to make a decision with regards to a publication. Cheryll glotfelty is an avid reader, nature lover and concerned planetary citizen. It is believed that william rueckert was the first to use the term ecocriticism. Each chapter includes an analysis of the economic methods that have been employed in merger cases or that can be employed in merger assessment, such as merger simulation and critical loss analysis. Rueckert published an essay in 1978 entitled literature and ecology. A total of 1 acquisition came from private equity firms. If your knowledge of the outside world were limited to what you could infer from the major pub. An essay by nasrullah mambrol on november 27, 2016 0. Even more to the point, ecocriticism is still an emergent discipline, with boundaries that are still not drawn. Mergers, acquisitions and capital raising in mining and metals.
Article information, pdf download for the ecocriticism reader. Pdf the ecocriticism reader download full pdf book. Bringing ecocriticism closer to the material turn, the contributions to this landmark volume focus on material forces and substances, the agency of things, processes, narratives and. Landmarks in literary ecology by cheryll glotfelty, harold fromm isbn. Asle seeks to inspire and promote intellectual work in the environmental humanities and arts. Estok, harold fromm, william howarth, william rueckert, suellen campbell, michael p. Information and translations of ecocriticism in the most comprehensive dictionary definitions resource on the web. The word ecocriticism traces back to william rueckerts 1978 essay literature and ecology. Landmarks in literary ecology book online at best prices in india on. If the earth is a whole, land is only a part of it.
An experiment in ecocriticism and apparently lay dormant in critical vocabulary until the 1989 western literature association meeting in coeur dalene, when cheryll glotfelty at the time a graduate student. But these two terms are at times used interchangeably. Economic analysis in vertical mergers european commission. Since 1980s, three major merger waves have swept china in several decades, while counterpart of which in western coun tries takes more than one hundred years. Ecocriticism and nineteenthcentury literature ecocriticism is the study of representations of nature in literary works and of the relationship between literature and the environment. Fluid imaging technologies has been sold to yokogawa. Postmerger integration guidelines to ensure a stellar integration which is blamed for 70% of failed mergers. Effect of organizational cultures on mergers and acquisitions. This book cant be everything to everybody interested in ecocriticism, but thats probably a good thing for ecocriticism. Apart from the wavelike character and the intercontinental spread of the merger phenomenon, other characteristics are evident. Practically, new zealand russell mcveagh 284 getting the deal through merger control 2020. Material ecocriticism offers new ways to analyze language and reality, human and nonhuman life, mind and matter, without falling into wellworn paths of thinking. It also examines how ecocriticism differs from other critical approaches.
Slow violence, gender and the environmentalism of the poor in slow violence and the. It is a worldwide emergent movement which came into existence as. Nov 25, 2009 in postcolonial ecocriticism, graham huggan and helen tiffin examine relationships between humans, animals and the environment in postcolonial texts. Ecocriticism by greg garrard, 2004 online research library. As editors, we are deeply grateful to all of the contributors to this volume. Ones a familycontrolled, centuryplusold newspaper chain, known for believing in its civic mission but not for its digital strategy. The merger mania of the 1980s put top corporate management on the defensive as predators sought takeover targets. Material ecocriticism and the creativity of storied matter. Some overlooked ethical issues in acquisitions and mergers. The ecocriticism reader edited by cheryll glotfelty and. An assessment of the likely competitive effects of a merger or acquisition requires careful integration of economic theory to the specific facts of the industry and proposed deal in order to provide relevant empirical analysis. Ecocriticism and nineteenthcentury literature critical. It draws attention to the human and nonhuman world, particularly to connections between self, society, nature and texts.
Over the past two decades, ecocriticism has developed across a range of historical periods, literary and artistic genres, cultural histories, theoretical frameworks, and research and. Cheryll glotfelty is the author of the ecocriticism reader 4. Cheryll glotfelty is the cofounder and past president of the association for the study of literature and environment asle. Page 4 of 16 readings in contemporary literary theory.
Ecology and ecocriticism are the significant aspects for the. The ecocriticism reader landmarks in literary ecology by cheryll glotfelty and harold fromm editors 415 pages, paperback, university of georgia press, 1996. Transactions a proven track record of successfully. Introduction the importance of economic analysis in the application of competition rules, especially in mergers, has increased over the last few years. The fact that ecocriticism cant be reduced to a two hundred page volume is surely indicative that there is enough heterogeneity to sustain it as a viable mode of critical inquiry. Ecocriticism looks at literature from the perspective of the ecology. The publication of greg garrards monograph on ecocriticism in routledges new critical idiom series marks a significant milestone in the development of ecologically oriented literary and cultural studies. Cheryll glotfelty author of the ecocriticism reader. The ecocriticism reader is the first collection of its kind, an anthology of classic and cuttingedge writings in the rapidly emerging field of literary ecology. Ecocriticism seeks to evaluate texts and ideas in terms of their coherence and usefulness as responses to environmental crisis. Pdf sustainability andor survival of literature in the. Defining ecocritical theory and practice association for the study.
Merger is widely considered to be a significant tool by the en terprises looking for an unbeaten success in the fierce competi tion. Dg comp chief economist wants broader view on merger. Divided into two sections that consider the postcolonial first from an environmental and then a zoocritical perspective, the book looks at. List of books and articles about ecocriticism online.
This paper describes the economic and econometric analysis that the com. Also known as romantic ecology or green romanticism, romantic ecocriticism examines the ways. Glatfelter has acquired 6 companies, including 1 in the last 5 years. It was only in the 1990s that it began to gain momentum, first in the us and in the uk, as more and more literary scholars began to ask what their field has to contribute to our understanding of the unfolding environmental crisis. Unilateral competitive effects theories in merger analysis. Landmarks in literary ecology edited by cheryll glotfelty and.
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